Usually means: Underworld realm of the dead.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hades, hades: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hades: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Hades: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Hades: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hades: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hades, hades: Wordnik
  7. Hades, hades: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hades, hades: Wiktionary
  9. Hades: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Hades: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Hades: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hades: Dictionary.com
  13. Hades: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hades (DC Comics), Hades (Disney), Hades (Hercules), Hades (Ulysses episode), Hades (disambiguation), Hades (film), Hades (mythology), Hades (rapper), Hades (single), Hades (single album), Hades (video game), Hades: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hades: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hades: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Hades: Rhymezone
  18. Hades: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Hades: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. hades: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hades: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Hades: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. hades: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. Hades: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hades (god), Hades (mythology), Hades: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. HADES: Acronym Finder
  3. hades: A Word A Day

Religion (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hades: Easton Bible
  2. World English Bible Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  5. Hades: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  6. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hades: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hades: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hades: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hades)

noun:  (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
noun:  (Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
noun:  In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.
noun:  Hell.
noun:  (specifically, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Hell as a waiting place for damned souls before the Last Judgement, after which they may be cast in Gehenna.

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